Software

Case Study

Fareportal, a travel company that operates in the US, Canadian and European markets, was looking to implement a solution that would help in balancing the costs of its growing Indian delivery center against the rising real estate prices prevalent in the region.

The world has gone digital – 7 billion people are now using around 30 billion connected devices. This has meant that businesses of all sizes need to create compelling digital strategies that improve interactions with customers.

How-To

Sourav Mallick says that "I want [to] protect the USB ports of my laptop from unauthorized access. Is there any software that can be used to lock the USB ports with a password and then unlock them when needed?"

Interview

As IoT reaches the peak of its hype cycle, enterprises realize its significance, and how this technology can release them from few pain points, that they have going through for a long time. Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, Vice President Product Management, SAP Labs believes that Internet of Things will revolutionize operational processes.

Binod Singh, President and CEO, ILANTUS Technologies, believes that as more business departments start making IT purchase decisions, it’s changing the way identity and access management (IAM) is built and sold. IAM will have to move from its monolithic past to a dynamic, fragmented, and user-friendly avatar.

Jason Nolet, SVP-Routing, Switching and Analytics Product Group, Brocade, shares why Brocade is the forerunner in the SDN discussion and how the New IP will be built on a strong bulwark of SDN and NFV.

News

While the buzz around big data analysis is at a peak, there is less discussion about how to get the necessary data into the systems in the first place, which can involve the cumbersome task of setting up and maintaining a number of data processing pipelines.

Windows 10 may be a radical change from its predecessors, maybe even the last version of the OS, but for enterprises planning to migrate to the new operating system, it will be the same old, same old, analysts said.

Interviews

Organizations are fatigued with the vendor selling products and the sprawl of security technologies that is not delivering better business outcomes. We are changing that role play with a unique approach, says Struthers

Joseph Landes, General Manager, Developer, and Platform Evangelist, Microsoft, explains how Azure enables customers to extend their on-premise investments into the public cloud and choose between infrastructure and platform services.

I'm a fan of the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, a group that generally lives up to that name, but its recent effort to push Google into an Orwellian form of censorship, the so-called "right to be forgotten," is a massive mistake.

Slideshows

There are over hundreds of government initiated apps for Android, Apple and Windows devices. With Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, the government has released several new feature-rich smartphone applications.

Phablets reported a phenomenal growth of 527 percent largely due to low cost and big screen size phones. On the other hand, tablet has witnessed a slight growth of 4 percent when compared to the huge growth in the last three years. And smartphone sales have increased by 33 percent over the last year and stood at 69.67 million.